O’Reilly-Kelly Juggernaut Blows Away the Competition on Wednesday

by Don Irvineon March 28, 2014

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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly achieved a rare ratings feat on Wednesday when they both managed to attract more than 500,000 viewers in the key demo (18 – 49 year-olds), easily outdistancing CNN and MSNBC.

CNN has been doing considerably better of late, due to their obsession with the disappearance of Malaysian Airline flight MH370 nearly three weeks ago, making the large Fox News victory even more significant.

MSNBC, which lost 24% of its primetime audience last year, came in third as it struggled to compete with Fox’s normally strong lineup and CNN’s Malaysian Air coverage.

Total audience figures for O’Reilly came in at 2,868,000, and 2,294,000 for Kelly, which was more than the combined numbers for CNN and MSNBC during those hours.